Touchstone Talk

Poems from Touchstone Issue 68.1 Spring 2026 Audio Edition

Poems from Touchstone Issue 67.2 Fall 2025 Audio Edition

Interview with Portsmouth Community Radio Station WSCA with Joanne Casey and David Banach talking about the Poetry Society of New Hampshire and poetry around the state.

We enjoyed the poems from issue 67.1 so much that we couldn't resist talking in more detail about 4 of them. Editor David Banach and Associate Editor Melissa Sprague take a deep dive into four poems from Issue 67.1: 1. Cassandra Was A Far Cry From Waco by Courtney Seymour. 2. EXHIBITION by Elizabeth Acevedo. 3. Talking to Jorge Again by Marjorie Moorhead. 4. How Be Dispersed by Mary Castelli.

Poem read from the Spring 2025 Issue of Touchstone, the journal of poetry and art from the Poetry Society of New Hampshire

Touchstone Readers Norah Smith and Sam Marcotte got to talk to NH poet Patrice Pinette about her new book Happiness is a Strange Bird and her poetic practice. They also got to talk about three poems from the new book. Patrice Pinette received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In the Connections Program of New Hampshire Humanities, she facilitates book discussions with adult learners of En...

We got to chat with Liane St. Laurent about her book un/winter , published with Bee Monk Press. You can listen to the conversation, and some of the poems from the book, here: Liane St. Laurent is an old dog learning new tricks. She has washed dishes, driven horse-drawn carriages, picked apples, taught English and is now a retired IT professional. Her work appears online and in print in The Banyan...

We got to chat with NH State Poet Laureate Jennifer Militello about her work as Poet Laureate and to listen to and chat about 3 poems. We also talked about her forthcoming work and the value of poetry in turbulent times. You can listen to the conversation and the poems here:  Jennifer Militello is the current Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying...

Poetry from Touchstone Volume 66, Fall 2024 from the Poetry Society of New Hampshire https://psnh.org/audio/